Reddit usernames and social media withdrawal
 

Reddit talks about netphoria sometimes, but I mostly use reddit to identify plants and look at cat gifs. The majority of opinions + culture on there can be pretty awful and "cringe-y" at times.

A while back, I deleted instagram. It suprised me that I had been using it for so long, but it had become a different place where the major goal seemed to be distracting and advertising to the user.

Do you use reddit? What for?

You have my consent to stalk my reddit-ing if you wish: I am: Mertensia virginica

I am psychrev

I read some political stuff, psych stuff, morbid reality, unresolved mysteries, baby elephant gifts, crappy/asshole design, TIL, explain like I'm 5, petty revenge, buy it for life/frugal, eat cheap and healthy, morbid questions, floridaman

to name a few

I gotta clear it out a lil

i know watchpeopledie is :erm: but i dont watch gory shit, im just fascinated with the moment of unexpected death. like people are alive and then they are suddenly dead it's very strange if you think about it

Yeah. No kidding.

You ever wake up with bloodshot eyes and don't know where you are? It's probably a mix of that and the moment you succumb to anesthesia. Or fainting from blood volume loss.

I used to just look at funny and advice animals and some aww, but now I like to browse the first 3 or so pages of all every night with no filters to see the broad spectrum of what people are into

Misinformation, pseudoscience, 1-uping, misogyny, and being all around annoying nerds.

i'm hoping it's nothing, you're just gone

whenever i choke a little on food or cough a lot or need to get my inhaler i start panicking and wondering if this is how i'm going to die. it's quite unsettling and it didn't used to be this way.

How did it used to be?

I just look at r/cringepics and r/guitarpedals, basically.

I subscribed to a lot of shit that looks interesting, but it never comes up on my front page. My front page is dominated by default subs, even though I unsuscribed from a lot of them. I just left some defaults subscribed to because they have something I might want to see every once in a while. But it seems like default stuff is all I ever see.

i didnt immediately think that i might be dying

r/babymetal

:rockon:

behemothblackhole

I usually follow natureismetal

I haven't used social media since I dismantled my Facebook back in '11. These days, I'm grateful.

Uhhhhhhhuuuhhhh

Sorry to break it 2 u but u using it rite now son

What? NO!

Srsly though, you know what I mean. Social networking sites. Stuff like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Tinder, Grindr, Fister whatever.

The internet is poison at this point and I'm waiting for the day I can disconnect it

It is not today though

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i will also admit i watch the suicide jumping videos because that is my suicide plan should i ever do it. it is kinda fucked up, i know it is

i also used to watch some of the mass disaster stuff but i watched the station nightclub fire video and it straight up traumatized me so i don't do that anymore...

If not for online gaming and Netflix, I probably woulda ditched my internet connection long ago.

My thoughts on the Internet are kind of too scattered for me to make a coherent post about but I think that by the time I came of age to use the internet it had long passed being anything other than another arm of this world where we create tiny personalized plastic boxes to live in, just another part of consumerism, Capitalism, The Market etc.

Mark E Smith put it all the way back in the 80's that computer tech and the internet was opposite to what humanity needs like eating more food to make yourself skinny

I needed more social exposure as a teenager but instead I turned to the Internet

"Whats a computer, Eat Y'self Fitter"

Became a recluse had a computer set up in the home saw the Holy Ghost I swear where's the cursor where's the eraser

Thanks Poots. (am i really saying that?)